¶ The Names.
It is named in Greeke 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, which a man may call in Latine Buxea spina: and in English, Box Thorne: of some, Asses Box Tree, and prickley Boxe: it is also named Eycium, of the iuice which is boyled out of it: the iuice is properly called 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, and retaineth in Latine the same name Lycium: it is termed in English Thorne box. But it seemeth to me, that the originall name Lycium is fitter, being a strange thing, and knowne to very few: the Apothecaries know it not, who in stead thereof do vse amisse the iuice of the fruit of Woodbinde, and that not without great errour, as we haue al∣ready written. ‡ It is vnknowne in our shops, neither is there any thing vsed for it, it being wholly out of vse, wherefore our Author might here well haue spared Dodonaeus his words. ‡
Dioscorides teacheth to make a 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 of Sumach which is good for those things that Lycium is, and is vsed when Lycium is not to be had, and it is fit to be put in all medicines in stead thereof.